> Irish, Italians, and Slavs weren't considered "white" under... True-ish. And yet (by my skim) the article makes no mention of that - even though it's contra

> Irish, Italians, and Slavs weren't considered "white" under... True-ish. And yet (by my skim) the article makes no mention of that - even though it's contrary to modern popular usage. Historically, a society's nobility very often were of a different "race" - the one which had shown up with an army, and conquered the society. (And I used England for a reason - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_conquest .) And even when that was not the case, hereditary nobility were usually treated as socially/politically/genetically distinct from the commoners - which looks darned "racist", in the common meaning of that word. > Race is a social and political construct but the article clearly [...] the modern concept of race [...] My impression: Both you and the article are working within a particular intellectual bubble. Which bubble needs to be clearly labeled, but ain't.